Caroline Bergvall: “There’s a muscularity to the text.”

In Caroline Bergvall’s interdisciplinary artistry, the body and the voice become a tool. Her explorations of sound-making are physical. As a poet of French-Norwegian nationalities, Bergvall lives in England and works across media and languages.

“There’s a muscularity to the text,” she says of a handful of recent performative pieces exploring the effort of breathing in relation to speaking. Together allows for a transmission of voice and body and breath. And to the ears, it spirals into cadence. Breath. Voice. Throb. Pulse. Beat.

Earlid’s curator, Joan Schuman, and Seth Guy, sound-artist and creator of The LiteraryMix, found resonance in Bergvall’s work during their conversation in Earlid’s winter 2017, (A) Generative Engine.